You can now bid to win a virtual meet and greet with actor, writer, producer, and author Kal Penn! He is known for his starring roles in Designated Survivor, House, How I Met Your Mother, and the Harold & Kumar franchise. He currently stars in The Santa Clauses for Disney +.
Kal’s first book, You Can’t Be Serious, became a national bestseller when it hit shelves in November. The audiobook (which Penn also narrates) was well-reviewed for its humor, heart, and sense of optimism. You Can’t Be Serious is a series of funny, consequential, awkward, and ridiculous stories from Kal Penn’s idiosyncratic life. It’s about being the grandson of Gandhian freedom fighters, and the son of immigrant parents: people who came to this country with very little and went very far—and whose vision of the American dream probably never included their son sliding off an oiled-up naked woman in the raunchy Ryan Reynolds movie Van Wilder…or getting a phone call from Air Force One as Kal flew with the country’s first Black president. Kal also served as an Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, where he served as President Obama’s Liaison to Young Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the Arts community.
In these roles, he worked on a range of issues, including the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the Affordable Care Act, Pell Grants, arts and culture programs, the DREAM Act, and rapid response to the BP Oil Spill and earthquake in Haiti. He was a national co-chair for the Obama/Biden re-election campaign in 2012 and served on the President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities, focusing on arts education and cultural diplomacy. Penn has taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Los Angeles. Originally from New Jersey, he received his undergraduate degree in sociology, theater, film, and television at the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a graduate certificate in international security from Stanford University. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Penn recently wrapped production on the CBS Drama, Clarice (based on Silence of the Lambs), and Freeform’s late-night youth election format show Kal Penn Approves This Message. He currently stars in the animated Disney Junior series Mira, Royal Detective is an Executive Producer on the Viacom/Paramount + comedy, Surina & Mel, and can be heard in Nickelodeon’s Its Pony. His climate change docuseries Getting Warmer airs on Bloomberg this winter.
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